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>   The current limitations of <SPAN
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   text search features are:
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>The length of each lexeme must be less than 2K bytes</P
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>The length of a <TT
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>The number of lexemes must be less than
     2<SUP
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>Position values in <TT
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>tsvector</TT
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>No more than 256 positions per lexeme</P
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>The number of nodes (lexemes + operators) in a <TT
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>   For comparison, the <SPAN
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   contained 10,441 unique words, a total of 335,420 words, and the most
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>   Another example &mdash; the <SPAN
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   list archives contained 910,989 unique words with 57,491,343 lexemes in
   461,020 messages.
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